Peleg Sprague (Maine)

Peleg Sprague (27 April 1793-13 October 1880) was a member of the US House of Representatives (NR-ME 4) from 4 March 1825 to 3 March 1829, succeeding Stephen Longfellow and preceding George Evans, and a US Senator from 4 March 1829 to 1 January 1835, succeeding John Chandler and preceding John Ruggles.

Biography
Peleg Sprague was born in Duxbury, Massachusetts in 1793, and he became a lawyer in Augusta, Maine in 1815. He served in the Maine House of Representatives from 1821 to 1822 and in the US House of Representatives from 1825 to 1829, when he was elected to serve in the US Senate. In 1835, he resigned and returned to his law practice, and he served as a federal judge from 1845 to 1865. He died in Boston in 1880.